Ariyippu drives home the point that nothing can force you to leave the path of righteousness, discovers Utkarsh Mishra.
'Ours is a disaster movie with no big stars, songs or commercial ingredients.' 'Yet, it is Malayalam cinema's highest grosser.'
Radhakishan Damani is the only billionaire to see his wealth grow by around 20% during the lockdown.
India's Rs 4.5-trillion fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector was one of the first to bounce back from the lockdown induced blues, reporting a year-on-year (YoY) growth in the October-December quarter last year. That said, the overall consumption figures continue to remain depressed. The FMCG market, which includes daily consumables like branded atta, hand sanitizers, edible oils, shampoos, razors, and so on, recorded 7.3 per cent value growth during the period, while the smartphone market grew by 21 per cent.
Get ready to be spooked by Nayanthara this week.
This form of government, where secrets and major decisions are kept from the Cabinet itself, appears to be continuing, which is why the speculation around this special session, asserts Aakar Patel.
With so many releases in 2023, not all got their due. Subhash K Jha picks his underrated films of the year.
Cherry blossoms in Sri Lanka, Hanuman speaking Bombaiya, the mythical Sone Ki Lanka looking darkly Gothic, Raavan looking like a Bollywood dude... this is not modernisation. This is a travesty, asserts Deepa Gahlot.
'A lot of what you see on screen, particularly the night of the massacre, is pretty close to what really happened as it is based on survivor stories.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
'There's no point making grand plans all our lives when life itself is so fragile.'
March is going to be an exciting month when it comes to Bollywood releases as it would be a good mix of theatrical and OTT arrivals.
Sanjay Mishra is the saving grace of Subhash Ghai's forgettable comedy-thriller, 36 Farmhouse, observes Namrata Thakker.
'If there is any reason to change my holding in Adani group stocks, the Hindenburg report on the group is not the one.'
'While the country has been hit hard from a strong second wave of Covid, we believe the markets are willing to look through that.'
Deadly dolls, skeletons in the closet, haunted homes, this is just a warm-up on what to expect on OTT this week.
Feeling the heat and tension of the crisis? Fikar not!
When the war veteran set out to walk 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine in Bedfordshire before his 100th birthday, he was aiming to raise a humble 1,000. But his determination to complete the challenge while using a walking frame captured the public's imagination during the pandemic and within days he had raised tens of millions of pounds, with the figure continuing to grow even after he had completed the 100th lap.
'Every woman should believe she is a lady killer because that's the only way she can gain the confidence to achieve whatever she wants in life.'
Rediff readers tell us how they celebrated the festival amidst the pandemic.
'After exiting jail, I thought some of my IIM-A classmates would contact me. None did.' 'The case indeed scared people, which perhaps was the objective of the State.'
A study by eminent economists, by Jean Drze, Reetika Khera and Meghana Mungikar released few days back shows that more than 100 million people are excluded from the PDS because the central government insists on using 2011 population figures to calculate state-wise coverage under the National Food Security Act.
'The reviews have been generous and overwhelming.' 'But unfortunately, it's not shown in the numbers and technically, you would call it a flop.' 'I don't understand what to take from it... I am at a loss...'
A list of watchable Hindi legal shows and films on OTT, in order of release.
'Never in the history of Indian cinema did we have a distribution system for 240 countries, but we have it now.' 'And if we still keep catering to the B and C-tiers of our country, and not the whole world, then we are really being losers.' 'The visionaries of the industry must pull up their socks and say that now we will create for the world.'
'I regret not showing my grandparents the man I am today.' 'I was battling with drug and alcohol addiction when they were alive.' 'They were struggling to see me deteriorating my life and destroying it.'
Taapsee Pannu will play a cop for the first time in director Arshad Syed's Woh Ladki Hai Kahan.
'India's edtech and start-up story will be in danger.'
'Society deals with you the way they do, or forms an opinion, depending on if your family is with you every step of the way.'
The first half of 2023 has been good to Bollywood, as we saw big blockbusters like Pathaan and The Kerala Story. But there have been flops as well.
'It started with an image of a father and son riding a bike on a winter morning.'
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
'In the first lockdown, my mother used to feed me everything possible.' 'After all, she is an Indian mother.' 'Sometimes laddoos, sometimes parathas.' 'I gained almost 10 kg.' 'When Maharani fell into my lap, the weight was a perfect match for the character.'
'When Zubeida came, everybody loved me and I got a slew of offers of the same kind.' 'People started saying, "Aap nayi Aruna Irani ban jayegi".'
Harry & Meghan, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel realises, is just a sequel to Diana's Story.
Like the countless other things that were made possible online by the deadly coronavirus, Connect adds demonic possession and exorcism to the list, observes S Saraswathi.
'Chup is the work that I'm most satisfied with; it won't bore me or make me cringe later.'
Unpaused, with some fine performances and meaningful stories, will definitely warm your heart, notes Namrata Thakker.
'I remember how my grandmother was scared for me when I joined the industry because she was aware of the hurdles and pitfalls.' 'It's a harsh place.' 'When the going is good, it's great, but you really have to have the spirit to deal with the situation when the chips are down.'
Like all of us, Bollywood's favourite pastime is to catch up on the latest shows and films on OTT.
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